Los Angeles Dodgers ace Tyler Glasnow met his fiancee while on the Tampa Bay Rays when he spotted her in the crowd and threw a baseball her way to get her number
18:16 ET, 27 Oct 2025
Tyler Glasnow dominated the Brewers in the NLCS(Image: Getty Images)
Tyler Glasnow is set to take the mound for the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 3 of the 2025 World Series after the team split the series’ first two games on the road against the Toronto Blue Jays.
Across 13.1 playoff innings, the 32-year-old right-hander has scattered just a single run while striking out 18 Philadelphia Phillies and Milwaukee Brewers hitters.
Glasnow is certainly not the most discussed member of the vaunted Dodgers pitching staff: that honor certainly belongs to fellow aces Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto. However, Glasnow certainly boasts the most creative way of having met his partner of any Los Angeles pitcher.
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While pitching for the Tampa Bay Rays in 2021, the pitcher spotted a pretty girl in the crowd. “I saw a girl who was kind of cute, so I had our team photographer zoom in on her — this just sounds very weird — but she was wholesome, with a girl-next-door look,” he said in a previous interview.
“So I wrote my phone number on a ball, threw it to her, and told her to text me. She came to the next game, threw me a ball with her number, and told me to text her.” The pair — Glasnow and Meghan Murphy — have been dating ever since and are currently engaged.
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Glasnow has been somewhat camera-shy about sharing more information about the story. However, he told the full tale to FOX and Los Angeles play-by-play man Joe Davis last year, elaborating on the story.
“He gets a ball and writes his phone number on it, throws it up to her, and said, ‘Text me.’ She comes to the next game, throws him a ball back with her number, and says, ‘No, you text me,’ and so he did, and the rest is history,” Davis revealed on a 2024 Dodgers broadcast.
Glasnow was a first-time All-Star in 2024(Image: Getty Images)
Glasnow, a California native, started his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was infamously traded — alongside fellow prospects Austin Meadows and Shane Baz — to the Rays in an ill-fated trade for Chris Archer.
The right-hander struggled to stay healthy but was dominant when he was, typified by his 1.78 ERA across 60.2 innings during the juice-ball 2019 season.
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The Rays traded him to the Dodgers in 2024, where he pitched a career-best 134 0 innings and earned his first All-Star nod. Glasnow started 18 games in 2025, striking out 106 batters in 90.1 innings to go along with a 3.19 ERA and a 1.10 WHIP.
Monday will be his third career World Series start and his first since 2020 when his Rays side took on the Dodgers.
